Sc. [app. f. BOW sb.4] A stock farm with the stock on it.
1808–79. Jamieson, Dict., s.v., To tak a farm in a bowin, to take a lease of a farm in grass, with the live stock on it; this still remaining the property of the landholder, or person who lets it. Ayrs.
1863. Glasgow Her., 5 Sept., 8/1. To let, near Balloch, a Bowing of 20 Cows.
